2. which group of words is a sentence rather than a fragment?
a cicadas live only one month.
b trying to stay out of sight, move around a branch, hiding from view.

c work their way a few centimeters into the soil and feed on the sap of
tree roots.
d by fastening themselves securely to tree trunks to molt their outer
cases.

A Cicadas live only one month.

Explanation:

A sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence. Fragments are either made of dependent clauses, or lack subject/predicate. Complete sentences, on the other hand, have both the subject and the predicate, and are independent. It means that complete sentences can exist on their own.

The only complete sentence is Cicadas live only one month. This sentence can exist on its own, and contains both the subject and the predicate.

it ends with a marriage, but also with prospero giving up his power.

the tempest is a play written by william shakespeare between 1610-1611, it narrates the story of prospero a magician that sets a storm to wreck a ship, this sets the story to kill the king of naples. while it is a romantic style play, it isn´t traditional because of the ending, it end with the marriage and the magician giving up his powers.